Radiation damages DNA, so why would you want to expose a fertilized egg to a high radiation environment?

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Separately to the privacy concerns, some health officials feared the Rapiscan 1000SP scanner, which uses low-level X-rays to generate the image viewed by screeners, might expose passengers to unsafe levels of radiation.

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The Daiichi plant does expose its workers to more radiation than other plants, the regulatory documents show.

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But others are using fancy new techniques like cone-beam computerised tomography which actually expose people to much higher levels of radiation.

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According to U.S. government estimates, the all-but-certain accident that will occur if one or both of these reactors go on-line could expose as many as 50-80 million Americans living downwind to deadly levels of radiation not seen since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.

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